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• 29 February 2012

• News: Microsoft ships Windows 8 Consumer Preview

  Microsoft launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview today at 9:30 a.m. ET, opening the gates to users who want to try the desktop edition of the company's upcoming upgrade.

• Opinion: Skype Launches GroupMe for Windows Phones

  Skype this week launched the GroupMe app for Windows Phone, following its August acquisition of the tool that enables free, real-time group texting. GroupMe lets you communicate instantly with up to 25 colleagues using chat, photos, and location sharing.

• News: Microsoft launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview: full details

  Full details of Microsoft's launch of the Consumer Preview of Windows 8. The Windows Store, which will be the marketplace for acquiring applications for Windows 8, launched today too, with free apps for all.

• Opinion: Windows 8 Consumer Preview Available Now

  Warm up your cable and DSL modems, they’re about to get busy. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview (read: beta) is ready for the general public to download and install. The Consumer Preview is definitely not a fully complete and tested copy of Windows 8, so make sure you don’t do anything crazy like wipe out your existing Windows installation or run it on a machine you use for mission-critical work.

• News: Qualcomm boosts augmented reality technology with new brand, SDK

  Qualcomm has released a version of its development kit for augmented reality apps, which from now on will be marketed under the Vuforia brand name.

• News: Where to download Windows 8 Consumer Preview

  Windows 8 Consumer Preview now available to download from Microsoft

• News: Microsoft: Windows 8 beta should be compelling for enterprises

  When Windows 8's beta version becomes available for download on Wednesday, Microsoft expects many enterprises to jump at the chance to give the new operating system a test drive, but some industry analysts doubt that there will be much interest among corporate IT officials.

• News: First Take: Fujitsus Super-Fast Tegra 3 Smartphone

  You might not be familiar with Fujitsu as a smartphone maker if you live in the United States or Europe, but the Japanese company is making some ambitious strides with its smartphone and tablet lineup for its home country. Fujitsu is showing off one of four Tegra 3 quad-core phones here at Mobile World Congress alongside its portfolio of water-proof tablets and phones.

• News: Mozilla's 'modest proposal:' Dump the smartphone OS

  Mozilla has a "modest proposal" about smartphones and it's simply stated. "Dump the operating system. All of them."

• News: Windows on ARM will be 'huge,' exec says

  The potential of Windows 8 on ARM has excited tablet and laptop users globally but none more than the U.K. firm that provides the reference design for processors used in most smartphones and in iOS and Android tablets.

• 28 February 2012

• Opinion: Mobile Linux: It's Not Just Android Anymore

  The mobile world has been good to Linux, whose Android derivative has enjoyed a success that few could have predicted just a few short years ago.

• News: Huawei Wants Your Next Phone to Be Made--By Huawei

  Huawei, Huawei, Huawei. The hard-to-pronounce Chinese manufacturer is one of the most buzzed about companies at this year's Mobile World Congress (by the way, it's pronounced "wa-wei").

• News: Wireless network demands push carriers to innovate

  Executives from three wireless carriers offered testimony Tuesday showing how an explosion of wireless users and devices are forcing them to expand their networks without necessarily the promise of revenue growth to keep up.

• News: Alcatel One Touch intros budget Android smartphones

  Alcatel One Touch has introduced 12 Android-based smartphones, including the Ultra 995, which will cost about US$250 and have a 4.3-inch screen.

• News: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: A Hands-On Tour

  The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 stands out from the crowd of tablets at Mobile World Congress. It's the most compelling model at the show -- largely because of how it does something different, and better, than other comers. Samsung is not the first company to try offering a pen for use with an Android tablet. But it is the first to truly make the experience of using the pen the focal point of the tablet, thanks to the included software for creating and consuming media. And that's what makes the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 stand tall.

• Opinion: First Look at Mozillas Web Platform for Phones: 'Boot to Gecko'

  Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, has its eyes on mobile. Firefox for Android has been around for some time, and a newer, faster version is set to launch soon.

• News: A Closer Look: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro Chipsets Awesome Multimedia Features

  Qualcomm's Pro version of the Snapdragon S4 chipset, the S4 Pro processor, features the Adreno 320 GPU, which supports higher-resolution displays, better gaming, and improved Web browsing.

• News: Ericsson extends SON to automate mixed mobile networks

  Ericsson took a step to simplify carrier mobile networks on Tuesday, during a Mobile World Congress show where infrastructure is getting more complex.

• News: Mozilla dropped Android from Boot-to-Gecko project

  Mozilla managed to avoid using any parts of Android in the development of its Boot-to-Gecko mobile Web project.

• News: In pictures: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy Beam and Galaxy Tab 2

  Developers at Samsung Mobile have been very busy of late. The company has unveiled no fewer than four new mobile devices at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.

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